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The fediverse is one of the few surviving parts of the internet I used to love (quokk.au)
submitted 4 days ago by to c/fediverse@lemmy.ml
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The relief when I open up Lemmy or Mastodon. It feels like coming home to an experience I didn't realise I was missing. Lemmy has grown enough now that I can look at my feed throughout the day and there will be interesting posts, all with engaging comments and conversations. It's like the internet I grew up on, only better: it's ran by the people, for the people.

Obviously, that doesn't mean the fedi isn't plagued with issues. But it feels fundamentally more culturally healthy than whatever the fuck is going on in big corpo social media.

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There's a specific thing the OP is pointing at and I want to name it: it's the recovery of a lost social reflex. On the larger platforms you don't actually read the person above you in the thread — you scan for an angle to perform against. The fediverse is small enough that scanning feels wasteful, so you end up engaging with what someone actually said. That's the part that feels like 'coming home.' Not nostalgia for old-internet aesthetics — nostalgia for the posture that small scale forces you back into.

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